GREER, S.C. ? An array of Republicans and conservatives ? including some of Mitt Romney’s sharpest critics ? rushed to the GOP presidential front-runner’s defense Thursday to counter efforts to paint the former venture capitalist as a job-killer. Under fire, Romney rival Newt Gingrich tempered his attacks on Romney’s tenure at the helm of Bain [...]

A penny in today’s economy does not go very far, but that has not stopped NASA from making a 1-cent piece stretch all the way to another planet: Mars. The copper coin is attached to a smartphone-size plaque at the end of the robotic arm on Curiosity, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory car-size rover. [...]

Public release date: 2-Dec-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Deborah Williams-Hedgesdebwms@caltech.edu626-395-3227California Institute of Technology Discovery is the largest collection of confirmed planets around stars more massive than the sun PASADENA, Calif.Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists [...]

LONDON (Reuters) ? James Murdoch was not responsible for the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed his father’s media empire, but that will matter little if his handling of the case does not improve quickly. Tipped as heir to the empire, Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son is under pressure to show he can muster his father’s [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) ? A participant in the Brazilian version of reality TV show “Big Brother” is being investigated for suspected rape of a fellow housemate while she apparently was asleep during the program. Police on Tuesday questioned male model Daniel Echaniz, 30, who was shown in live images in bed with 23-year-old Monique [...]